These are just my opinions. I cannot promise that I will be perfect, but I can promise that I will seek to understand and illuminate whatever moves that the Giants make (my obsession and compulsion). I will share my love of baseball and my passion for the Giants. And I will try to teach, best that I can. Often, I tackle the prevailing mood among Giants fans and see if that is a correct stance, good or bad.

Part of the impetus for this is that I realized that anybody coming in new to my blog won't know about this business plan or to search for it. It is critical to understanding my commentary on this blog to know what my vision for a great baseball team is.

Another impetus is that there are commenters who come on here acting like they know how to run a baseball team, particularly with their comments about Sabean, but really, it is all hot air unless you have a plan and a vision for how a team should be built. And the plan and visions should be more than just "get the best lineup and pitching staff in the majors" because that is not realistic, even the Yankees haven't been able to buy the best lineup and pitching staff in the majors (though they are coming close to it).

This will be a living document, as I will probably post again to this series when the muse (and insight) hits me, though I probably won't be modifying the existing posts, I will probably just post an update in real time but change the link to the updated post. [latest update was to add Core Rotation]

1 comment:

Dude, I love this plan. My only problem is with point 11 on team speed. I've seen the BP study and the evidence, but I would rather have slow/patient/home run hitters (Burrell/Posey/Youkilis/etc) than fast/impatient/sort of home run hitters (crawford/winn/etc).

Of course, if they were patient and fast and had power I'd really like that guy (Bonds).

I, Me, Mine

Wow, this was easy and amazingly free. I am a big Giants fan and I hope to use my experience in business (MBA) and analytics (nearly 25 years) to bring up interesting facts to other Giants fans so that we may better understand the team's chances for success (or not) and hopefully share their insights with me. Please read my "OGC's Business Plan" link to better understand what my philosophy is for building a successful MLB team.
I want to teach and share my love of baseball and, in particular, my love for the San Francisco Giants. I will believe to my dying days that Bobby Bonds should be in Baseball’s Hall of Fame for being one of the few to bring the combination of power and speed to the game.
Why a blog? I love technology and society and just wanted to participate in this trend to see what it felt like. Plus I have a lot of questions I would like answered about the Giants and since I don't see anyone else tackling them, I've taken it upon myself to do it. Not that I'm that special, but just that I'm willing to put in the time to investigate them.